День студента. Ларькова Г.С - 17 стр.

      10.15 P.M. Looks through the next day’s engagements and finishes any official
papers she has not yet time to read.
      10.30 P.M. Telephones some members of the Royal Family – just to see if all is
well.
      10.45 P.M. Goes to bed. If Philip is out on an engagement alone, she always
waits up for him before going to bed.

      3.3 Will it be of interest to you to compare the Queen’s lifestyle with the
lifestyle of ordinary people? Here is an article about the average Briton. There is
a lot of statistics in it which could give you an idea of ‘an average lifestyle’. Look
through the article and compare the standard of living in Britain with that in
your country

     What is the average Briton like?

     The average Briton is a woman (51 %).
     The average Britain lives in a house, not a flat (80 %). She (or he) has a
bathroom (95 %), a refrigerator or a freezer (99 %), a car (69 %) and a telephone (90
%), a TV-set (98 %), a central heating system (83 %), a video-recorder (73 %), a
washing machine (92 %), a computer (20 %).
     The average Briton is between 16 and 64 years old. The average British man
will die at 73 years old, while the average woman will live until she’s 78.
     The average Briton is married (60 %) and more Britons than ever before are
getting married. Men get married at the age of 28 while British women marry at 26.
About 20 % of marriages end in divorce, though about half will marry again.
     The average age for divorce, if you are thinking of marrying a Briton, is 36 for
women and 38 for men.
     The average Briton works 35-40 hours a week and has a 4-week holiday a year.
At present 40 % of holidays are spent staying with relatives or friends and a quarter
are spent camping. British residents take about 23 million holidays abroad every year.
The most popular foreign countries are Spain, France, the USA and Greece.
     What does the average Briton do in his/her free time? Well, he/she watches
television. Every Briton over the age of 5 watches television an average of 27 hours a
week. Other popular pastimes are listening to the radio or to CDs, gardening and of
course the pub.

     3.3.1 Test your memory

     Do you remember the statistics data given in the article? Match the data given in
the columns A and B and then look through the article again and check your answers.
Count the number of correct answers you’ve got and read the interpretation of your
results given after the test. Good luck!